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TIL people drown in the dead sea because of how difficult it is to roll over while floating face-down.

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5YV58 TIL that both OJ Simpson and Lance Armstrong sat on Corporate Audit Boards
QNgGM TIL: African spiny mice can lose 60% of the skin on their backs and re-grow the lost tissue without scarring! Researchers are looking into the genes responsible for this because these genes work in mammalian systems (growing back fur, muscle, etc) and could work in rehab medicine.
kJL94 TIL Henry V, while still prince, was hit by an arrow near his left nostril during the Battle of Shrewsbury. The arrow shaft broke leaving the arrow point buried six inches deep in his head. Court surgeon John Bradmore devised a special tool to extract the arrow point and saved the prince's life.
N7R5E TIL In 2001 Shaquille O'Neal made a hip-hop album produced by Dr. Dre and others, that has never been released.
1aaJX TIL that a teenage girl invented the genre of science fiction